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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

This morning I woke up and started the hyper speed warp drive powered up by the bass,
It gave me the joystick to steering away, from the Milky Way,
I got to keep moving into an other dimension!

Hold up! Now change lanes taken it too another speed, trying to find a galaxy!
Over the cosmos where its just so beautiful and free!
I see pretty lights their flashing making me re imagine,
all the crazy things that Ive seen!

I'm having flash backs like whiplash of free styling aliens!
Ripping it up from their homebase then they ask to leave 'em alone

I'm seeing microscopic I don't know how to stop it
Its all a little crazy in this zone, lets go!

I searched endlessly for the perfect galaxy,
where expression is currency in a karma economy.

I think its possibly around the corner up on the right!
I think I see the lights! Now brace yourselves and hold on tight,
because soon again, it will be time to FIGHT!

Jippiekajee!!!

Immigrants make a difference
We are all immigrants
We all make a difference
How are we all immigrants?
- Our souls are not from here

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Reset it now before people start making plans etc...not even 24h since pw73 finished and you come up with this shit to keep people hooked??  it's like adulterated hash yikes

the sad of it all is, you were on the right way, no send it all to hell again sad

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Tracie Jordan, who the heck are you!? You deleted from my fam before anyone actually arrived! You suckz!

Pixies My pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards?

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Get him

"I was beginning to think you were afraid to fight."
"I'm just naturally lazy, but I will if I have to."

Retired

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

If people wernt spending all last night badgering mods to get it reset asap, some more thought may have gone into it, but everyone wanted it reset right now!

But I agree, it's needs smaller family size and about 100 less systems smile

Watch out Banana, its pedo bear !!!!!! =O

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what people were badgering mods? Killas dont count as people! tongue

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Fam sizes should be 7 max and at most 600 systems

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Fam size smaller, and the inactive effect is greater. 2 inactives kill a fam of 5 and cause the rest to go inactive. With 2 or 3 inactives in a fam of 8 you can at least make a decent go at the round. Hell, I did ok enough last round with just 2 1/2 actives. Get players to actually play and not piss the round away because they aren't in a full active fam then we will be able to lower the fam size.

As for system count, I played with the randomizer for 30 minutes trying to get a better number. It gave me either 400 or 750. I was lucky it spit out the number it did that I used. I tried a number of settings, from 40x40 or even 40x60, etc...and got the same result. The system isn't perfect, but to change it a new one will need to be designed.

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

You guys should make a topic for PW round 75 and put all your idea's together. I think thats something that would help the mods fine tune the settings for future rounds.

Fact is, mods had too little time to know what everyone prefers. Due to recent IC change of splitting MW from PW accounts, PW player base will change with people switching back&forth.


Learn from it and get it right for next round though, lets ride this one out first smile

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Stichio, have you joined yet? Now is the time to join and random into my fam! big_smile

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> Arbolio3 wrote:

> Fam size smaller, and the inactive effect is greater. 2 inactives kill a fam of 5 and cause the rest to go inactive. With 2 or 3 inactives in a fam of 8 you can at least make a decent go at the round. Hell, I did ok enough last round with just 2 1/2 actives. Get players to actually play and not piss the round away because they aren't in a full active fam then we will be able to lower the fam size.

As for system count, I played with the randomizer for 30 minutes trying to get a better number. It gave me either 400 or 750. I was lucky it spit out the number it did that I used. I tried a number of settings, from 40x40 or even 40x60, etc...and got the same result. The system isn't perfect, but to change it a new one will need to be designed.



Hmmm ok I agree on the fam size issue, but the amount of systems is way too many, I understand it's not your fault and actually a system design but there has to be a way around that.

We had a round long expo phase last round and I still think if we added another two weeks to the round there would still be empty planets.

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> Playboy Bohnanza wrote:

> Stichio, have you joined yet? Now is the time to join and random into my fam! big_smile



Just joined.....and missed!!!! Where are you?

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Too many systems:

Expo phase too long, families of all ranks constantly grow, semi-active players still have something to do, more difficult to defend cores.

Not enough systems:

Quick expo phase, family size difference are closer, family net worth is closer, promotes farming, players go inactive, promotes napping everybody, diplomacy more important, easier to defend core.



Both have advantages/disadvantages.

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

True, hard to find a compromise ....

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

The compromise is getting a good number of system. Somewhere between 400 and 700 would have been better, but with the tools we have, I was not able to achieve that setup.

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Arby: A very strict mod, reminds me of a fat redneck who drives a truck around all day with a beer in one hand. I hated this guy at the start, however, I played a round in PW with him where he went as an anonymous player. Our fam got smashed up and everyone pretty much left. Arby stayed around and helped out the remaining family. At the end of the round he revealed himself.... My views on him have changed since. Your a good guy.....

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I agree.  Arby3 is Incompetent big_smile

Sup?

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42 Reply by Pharaoh Metrex (edited by Pharaoh Metrex 15-Nov-2012 20:58:38)

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

> InSaNe wrote:

> If people wernt spending all last night badgering mods to get it reset asap, some more thought may have gone into it, but everyone wanted it reset right now!


- why is the round set up by mods only thought about when the round is finished?

most of us log in all day even refreshing HQ when we know nothing has happened but maybe someone has messaged us.... we thrive on IC if IC dies we die.... (extreme case) lol
EDIT: I forgot the point i was making before submitting lol, basically even a day without logging in is scary! so a long reset time is lame!

but yeah as mods they should be waiting for maybe the last week of round to know what went right and what went wrong in terms of setup, not once the round had finished so they do a rushed job in resetting.. and get "badgered" to reset  it.

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Actually Metrex, we do start a discussion around the last week if the round. Hash out the good, bad, ugly, and get a setup model for the next round. If there is a delay, it's because there is something specific we are waiting on.

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

what was Insane referring to then?

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Last night in #mod people kept hollering for it to be reset. I was in the middle of cooking, so was distracted. A distracted Arby3 while resetting a galaxy equals a broke galaxy, so I finished the reset when I was done cooking.

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Arby: A very strict mod, reminds me of a fat redneck who drives a truck around all day with a beer in one hand. I hated this guy at the start, however, I played a round in PW with him where he went as an anonymous player. Our fam got smashed up and everyone pretty much left. Arby stayed around and helped out the remaining family. At the end of the round he revealed himself.... My views on him have changed since. Your a good guy.....

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The problem is most of the mod team knows very little about the game to have a clue what kind of setups should be done, Metrex

You have now been infected with Bird flu. Good day.


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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

lol so is this how its staying?

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Unless there is a significant problem, then yes.

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Re: ~~Pinwheel 74 pVc!~~

Bah its fine =p Lets start next rounds thread so  it can be discussed and "fixed" for the next round.

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> Arbolio3 wrote:

> Fam size smaller, and the inactive effect is greater. 2 inactives kill a fam of 5 and cause the rest to go inactive. With 2 or 3 inactives in a fam of 8 you can at least make a decent go at the round. Hell, I did ok enough last round with just 2 1/2 actives. Get players to actually play and not piss the round away because they aren't in a full active fam then we will be able to lower the fam size.

As for system count, I played with the randomizer for 30 minutes trying to get a better number. It gave me either 400 or 750. I was lucky it spit out the number it did that I used. I tried a number of settings, from 40x40 or even 40x60, etc...and got the same result. The system isn't perfect, but to change it a new one will need to be designed.


poor mods they're trying to build highways with a donkey and a cart.  I know you're doing ur best, try asking Ps how to do it, or locate Arsy wherever he is, this was never an issue.
As for the inactives ruining fams, all you have to do is a player pool like the one I designed 2 (or 3 or 4) rounds ago and you'll get all the fams balanced and competitive.  Then again I'm up to do that job for you, but you never gave me the go sad

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